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Murray Straus suggests that corporal punishment is more harmful for boys than girls. [12] While African-American parents are more likely to favor using corporal punishment, research has shown mixed results on whether physical punishment predicts adverse outcomes in this group. [7]
The main reasons parents give for spanking their children are to make children more compliant and to promote better behavior, especially to put a stop to their children's apparent aggressive behaviors. [citation needed] However, research has shown that spanking (or any other form of corporal punishment) is associated with the opposite effect.
By that boys should suffer corporal punishment, though it is received by custom, and Chrysippus makes no objection to it, I by no means approve; first, because it is a disgrace, and a punishment fit for slaves, and in reality (as will be evident if you imagine the age change) an affront; secondly, because, if a boy's disposition be so abject as ...
Re: "Corporal punishment is still a thing in Tennessee?Time to end it for our kids' sake," by David Plazas, Nov. 16. Many are shocked to learn that corporal punishment is still legal and widely ...
Corporal punishment, which can take the form of paddling, spanking or another deliberate infliction of physical pain, is the harshest form of punishment that can be delivered in schools.
Among children with disabilities, black boys have the highest probability of being subject to corporal punishment, followed by white boys, black girls and white girls. While black boys are 1.8 times as likely as white boys to be physically punished, black girls are three times more likely than white girls to receive corporal punishment.
In 1990, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child established an obligation to “prohibit all corporal punishment of children.” The U.S. was the convention's lone holdout.
Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks. Corporal punishment in the context of schools in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been variously defined as: causing deliberate pain to a child in response to the child's undesired behavior and/or language, [12] "purposeful infliction of bodily pain or discomfort by an official in the educational system upon a student as a penalty for ...